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Thinking Out Loud About Mets Books

AG/DC Mar 11 2008 11:25 AM

Now that one of the best Mets books ever is out, I've been thinking about what hasn't been written and what I can add. The book that needs to be written, that I can't write is The Last Year at Shea, with the author attending each of the 81+ home games this year, interviewing staff and such.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 11 2008 11:35 AM

I had this idea a few years back to rip off the guy who wrote Wrigley Field: The Unauthorized Biography. Not a story of the last year of Shea, but of the death of the whole idea behind Shea -- the multipurpose stadium that was about modern convenience and utility and the masses, beaten dead by the idea of exclusivity, faux retro charm and luxury.

AG/DC Mar 11 2008 11:42 AM

That was exactly going to be my subplot.

Willets Point Mar 11 2008 12:01 PM

I think you could write a book called "Stalking Obscure Mets" where you randomly show up at Josias Manzanillo's family reunion and hide in the back of John Pacella's car. The book will write itself!